Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing clean Ubuntu in VM.....
Matt Jones wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Hi, I was wondering, I would like to have a clean install of Ubuntu in a VM, which I have installed on my machine which is using Ubuntu. Trouble is, I cant get it to install. Does somebody have a url to a site, where it gives instructions on installing into a VM. Thanks John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ What problems are you having, are you installing from a CD or an iso image? Hi Matt, well I get as far as completing the wizard, but nothing happens when I try to start the program. So somewhere its not actually installing Ubuntu. I did try to do it from a cd, but how can I do it using an iso image, is that from where there is a copy on the harddrive, not the cd? John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing clean Ubuntu in VM.....
Rob Beard wrote: John Matthews wrote: Hi, I was wondering, I would like to have a clean install of Ubuntu in a VM, which I have installed on my machine which is using Ubuntu. Trouble is, I cant get it to install. Does somebody have a url to a site, where it gives instructions on installing into a VM. Thanks John. What Virtual Machine software are you using? Regardless of what you are using, there should be an option to specify an ISO image to mount as a CD/DVD drive. This may give you some pointers, it covers VirtualBox on Windows XP (and Ubuntu 7.10 I believe) but the principal is the same... http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox Rob Hi Rob, I am using SunVirtual box which is what I used on windows to install Ubuntu a while back Got that to work using windows but it doesnt seem to want to work in Ubuntu. Thank you for the urls, I will try work through those today. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing clean Ubuntu in VM.....
Alan Pope wrote: 2009/9/19 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: This may give you some pointers, it covers VirtualBox on Windows XP (and Ubuntu 7.10 I believe) but the principal is the same... http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox The Ubuntu doc site has some good pages about it too. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox Cheers, Al. Hi Alan, thank you for the url, I will have a look at that today. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Installing clean Ubuntu in VM.....
Hi, I was wondering, I would like to have a clean install of Ubuntu in a VM, which I have installed on my machine which is using Ubuntu. Trouble is, I cant get it to install. Does somebody have a url to a site, where it gives instructions on installing into a VM. Thanks John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing clean Ubuntu in VM.....
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Hi, I was wondering, I would like to have a clean install of Ubuntu in a VM, which I have installed on my machine which is using Ubuntu. Trouble is, I cant get it to install. Does somebody have a url to a site, where it gives instructions on installing into a VM. Thanks John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ What problems are you having, are you installing from a CD or an iso image? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing clean Ubuntu in VM.....
John Matthews wrote: Hi, I was wondering, I would like to have a clean install of Ubuntu in a VM, which I have installed on my machine which is using Ubuntu. Trouble is, I cant get it to install. Does somebody have a url to a site, where it gives instructions on installing into a VM. Thanks John. What Virtual Machine software are you using? Regardless of what you are using, there should be an option to specify an ISO image to mount as a CD/DVD drive. This may give you some pointers, it covers VirtualBox on Windows XP (and Ubuntu 7.10 I believe) but the principal is the same... http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing clean Ubuntu in VM.....
2009/9/19 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: This may give you some pointers, it covers VirtualBox on Windows XP (and Ubuntu 7.10 I believe) but the principal is the same... http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox The Ubuntu doc site has some good pages about it too. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
